Workshops + Trainings

Unlock the Power of Collaboration

Capacity-building experiences to support educators in creating powerful school-family partnerships.

  • High-Impact Engagement Strategies: Discover tools to enhance trust, attendance, and student learning.

  • Authentic Partnership Shift: Move from involvement to equity-focused collaboration.

  • Dual Capacity Framework in Action: Translate theory into real results.

  • Tech & Tools: Use communication tools to work smarter, not harder.

  • FET Framework Overview: Explore a team-based approach to family engagement.

  • Concrete Planning Tools: Leave with clear actions tailored to your site goals.

  • Cross-Stakeholder Buy-In: Learn how to engage more educators as champions.

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Core Topics

The Transformative Power of FET Teams

Relationship-Centered Home Visits

  • Learn how to use home visits as a foundation for trust, communication, and equity.

    • Why It Matters: Discover how home visits improve behavior, engagement, and academics.

    • What Works: Learn essential elements for meaningful, culturally responsive visits.

    • Prepare With Confidence: Tools to engage colleagues and address implicit bias.

    • Broader Impact: See how home visits align with and enhance broader family engagement strategies.

  • Be prepared to build trust and connection with families through one of the most impactful engagement practices available.

  • This is a deep dive into launching and sustaining successful FET teams to create inclusive school communities.

    • Explore the "Why": Understand the shift from traditional involvement to transformative partnerships.

    • Learn the "How": Translate key frameworks into practical steps.

    • Real-World Inspiration: Gain confidence from stories of school-based success.

    • Effective Team Practices: Implement communication strategies and decision-making habits.

    • Leadership Development: Learn the top 10 stances of highly effective FET leaders.

    • Expand Collective Impact: Build shared leadership that reflects community voices.

  • Walk away with concrete strategies for deepening partnerships with families at the intersection of cultural responsiveness, family engagement, and a sense of belonging.

    Propel individuals, schools, and districts to build stronger bridges between staff and families, positive student outcomes, and create more inclusive and equitable school communities.

Facilitating Engaging Meetings & Events

Reimagining Parent-Teacher Conferences

  • Make conferences more uplifting, relational, and culturally responsive.

    • Before, During, After: Strategies for every stage of the conference process.

    • Two-Way Approach: Transform conferences into conversations that matter.

    • Equity-Focused: Learn how to uplift the voices of parents and caregivers

    • Shareable Tools: Receive resources for families and practitioners alike.

  • Walk away from this brief training with a new perspective on conferences and a series of practical tips to make them more dynamic, relationship-centered, and meaningful for all stakeholders.

  • Learn how to design and lead gatherings that energize participants and increase connection.

    • Engagement Tools: Practical tips and templates for high-participation facilitation.

    • Avoid Pitfalls: Learn what not to do, and how to create positive energy before, during, and after events.

    • Team-Building Toolkit: Access dozens of brief activities to foster connection.

    • Conversational Protocols: Use simple, effective structures for inclusive dialogue.

  • Significantly expand your leadership toolbox as you learn how to transform both the design and facilitation aspects of any meeting. By deepening your capacity and skill-set, you will consistently host gatherings where participants bring forth their strengths and create better outcomes for all.

Reducing Student Anxiety & Fostering Well-Being

  • Explore research-informed strategies to create safe, engaging, and emotionally supportive classrooms.

    • Student-Centered Practices: Implement over a dozen effective SEL approaches.

    • Insights from "The Anxious Generation": Ground your practices in current research.

    • Team Learning: Learn from others while developing your own implementation plan.

    • Classroom Culture: Refine your environment to promote belonging and academic growth.

  • Empower your students to feel confident, connected, and ready to thrive in school and life.

High Impact Family Engagement Strategies

  • Leverage high-impact strategies that help educators develop stronger communication and relationships with families and ongoing action steps.

    • Understand the difference between traditional involvement and authentic family partnerships

    • Discover the benefits and “why” behind prioritizing family engagement

    • Explore simple, high-impact practices to build strong relationships with families and ongoing action steps

    • Translate the Dual Capacity Framework into real, ongoing action

    • Be inspired by success stories from schools using transformative partnership strategies

    • Learn about tech tools that boost two-way communication with families

    • Access resources to work smarter—not harder—in building school-family partnerships

    • Get an overview of the Families and Educators Together framework in action

    • Learn how to launch and sustain collaborative school-based family engagement teams

    • Use practical tools for action planning aligned to your school’s goals

    • Identify strategies that fit your context and inspire more engagement champions

  • Gain concrete strategies to deepen family partnerships through cultural responsiveness, belonging, and engagement—building stronger bridges between staff and families to drive positive student outcomes and foster inclusive, equitable school communities.

Learn from FET Team members as they explain the power of a team-based approach to family engagement.

How Our Workshops Transform

  • “Ari's work is informing our support of family-school partnerships across Michigan!”

    -Jonnie Taton, Director of Family Partnerships, Michigan Department of Education

  • "Unlike many PD sessions, Ari’s was practical, inspiring, and one we will attempt to implement. I think this is a pivotal aspect for strengthening our educational system."

    -Principal

  • “Ari’s presentation was so engaging and really helpful— I am so excited to begin my communication with parents this year— I feel empowered with so many new ideas!"

    -Teacher

  • "Very informative. I am excited to implement some of these ideas into our school community."

    -Teacher

  • “You, your stories and transformational FET team were phenomenal!!”

    -Teacher

  • “What a great professional development… Forming new ideas to engage parents and assist them in forming trusting partnerships with their child’s teacher and the wider school community is essential. So excited to implement these ideas.”

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  • “The FET teams have been nothing short of transformational for the schools where they have been implemented.”

    -Sam Messier, former Assistant Superintendent, Boulder Valley School District

  • “FET has been so helpful. We’re no longer as lost in terms of all the information the schools send us. As parents, we share our needs and you do too, which makes it very reciprocal. Our families now participate more at school. I’ve learned so much at FET and grown in so many ways. We’re also more connected as a community.”

    -Juanis Portillo, parent participant on 4 different FET teams

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